444 ANIMADVERSIONES IN PIPERACEAS. 
Petioli 3-5 cent. longi glabri utrinque alati, alis ad basin 
paullo dilatatis cæterum angustissimis, supra } alt. evanes- 
centibus. Folia tenuiter membranacea pellucido-punctata 
supra atroviridia opaca glabra preter imam basin juniorum 
interdum tenere pubescentem, subtus pallida subnitida, 
nervis prominentibus et parcis anastomosibus prominulis 
pertensa, lato-ovata abrupte anguste oblique vel recte acu- 
minata, equilatera, basi lata concava vix subcordata, secus 
margines pilis appressis densis brevibus instructa 14-17 cent. 
longa, 11-13 lata; nervi omnes e basi, 3 medii ad apicem 
ducti. Pedunculi 5 mm. longi, amenta 11 cent., leviter 
curvata, heic juniora. Genitalia ab iis A. caudate vix differre 
videntur, sed bractearum area centralis nuda fusca glandu- 
losa. 
4. A. Ruiziana; glabra, foliis breviter petiolatis rigide mem- 
branaceis epunctatis rotundato-ovatis, summis lato-ovatis, 
æquilateris vel inæquilateris subabrupte brevi-acuminatis 
acumine obtuso, basi lato-truncatis vel summis rotundatis 
9-vel sub-7-nerviis, nervis 5 mediis fere ad apicem ductis, 
pedunculo petiolum subæquante, amentis brevibus rectis 
teretibus, bracteis conchæformi-cucullatis glabriusculis, 
stigmatibus 4-5 recurvis. 
Crescit in Peruvie nemoribus ad Pangoa, m. Jul. (Mathews, 
n. 1143.) 
Rami ramulique angulati obtusato-trigoni, striulati, nas- 
centes glabriusculi, internodiis 6-12 cent. longis nodis dila- 
tato-marginatis. Petioli 2-1 cent. longi, trigono-senpteretes 
antice profunde canaliculati marginibus obtusati, in sicco 
fuscescentes, superficiei quasi glandulose. Folia majora 
inferiora 25-28 cent. longa, 23-19 lata, supra levia versus 
basin nervis sulcata, subtus nervis prominentibus et anasto- 
mosibus reticulata; superiora 16-19 cent. longa, 10-15 lata; 
nervi omnes e basi, 3 medii ad summum apicem, 5 medii ad 
acumen, reliqui alte adscendentes, extimi margini proximi vel - 
in superioribus foliis in ipso margine siti; anastomoses hore —. 
zontales venulis transversis junctæ. Stipula oppositifolia — 
coriacea lanceolato-oblonga convoluta rigida obtusiuscwa@  — 
